Map of Mauritania

Tucson Show - 2010

Meteorites were for sale right up the stairs behind the big tree which was full of fresh oranges - about ten different rooms at this hotel had meteorites available - the Inn Suites was the highest concentration of dealers

Date: 01/01/00

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Inn Suites Room 230

This is the room that Anne Black and Geoffrey Notkin have each year at the show - a great selection of meteorites as well as a good social meeting point for collectors

Date: 01/01/00

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Russ Finney and Anne Black

This was my first stop on the hotel room-to-room meteorite tour and I finally got to meet Anne - she has an incredible French accent - her well organized meteorite selections were pretty fantastic as well

Date: 02/08/10

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Zag and Travis County (b)

My first purchase - these slices were big and colorful with inclusions! - PLEASE note: The photos throughout this album were taken quickly with no processing - to see the higher quality versions - take a look in my categorized albums

Date: 01/01/00

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Texas Bediasite and Moorabie

Two more purchases from Anne - a Texas impactite that is new for my collection - and a nice Australian meteorite specimen which fills a hole in my collection

Date: 01/01/00

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Palo Verde Mine and Bendegó

I picked up these two new ones from Anne as well - the colorful thin sliced Palo Verde Mine is an Arizona meteorite and Bendegó is a historical meteorite found in 1816 in Brazil - you can see the main mass in Rio

Date: 01/01/00

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Erich Haiderer

I made the drive over to the Riverpark Inn to see Erich and his amazing selection of Lunar and Martian meteorites - he had some eye popping slices and individuals which were way out of my budget - but I did find a few in my price range

Date: 01/01/00

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Russ Finney and Erich Haiderer

I had a two hour parking limit for the hotel and I spent every minute of it in Erich's room - he was busy with many visitors but he managed to keep a conversation running with me the entire time - he is a great guy to do business with

Eduardo - on the left - is another really great dealer and I made my way over to the Executive Inn to visit his room - as I was walking in Maria Haas was walking out and she took this picture of Eduardo, me, and his meteorite hunter friend

Date: 02/08/10

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Mercedes, Esquel, and Kem Kem

Eduardo sold me some really cool items - the Mercedes was found by the other guy in the photo with me - the Esquel was sliced by Robert Haag, and the cut-in-half Kem Kem came from the Casper collection and it is stone #11

Date: 01/01/00

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Blaine Reed

Blaine has been one of the longest full-time active dealers in the business - I bought my first meteorite from him over ten years ago - his brother is sitting behind him and they both are walking encyclopedias of meteorite information

Date: 02/08/10

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Typical Scene in Blaine's Room

Blaine's Room was at the Ramada and what you see here is pretty much what it looks like the entire show - the big iron meteorite on the bed was being sold by Mike Martinez - it weighed over 106 pounds

Date: 02/08/10

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NWA 2724 and NWA 736

Two great new items for me from Blaine - NWA 2424 - an eucrite that reminds me a little bit of Millbillillie - and NWA 736 - a chondrule filled H3.7

Date: 02/09/10

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Santa Fe Shatter Cones

I bought several items from Santa Fe, New Mexico on this trip - Blaine sold me these shatter cone specimens from a newly discovered crater northwest of Santa Fe

Date: 01/01/00

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Ruben Garcia and Greg Hupé

I went to the other side of the Ramada and found Ruben and Greg in Said Haddany's room looking at some of the fresh meteorite discoveries from Morocco - either that or they were really just drinking a couple of beers

Date: 02/08/10

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Said Haddany

Said had some really interesting stones which appeared to be potential rare meteorite types - I ended up puchasing about four kilos of unclassified NWA material during my time at the show from the various Moroccan dealers

Date: 02/08/10

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Said Haddany and Ruben Garcia

Ruben holds up a dark black crusted meteorite - how much does that one cost? - I need to bring more money next year...

Date: 02/08/10

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NWA Unclassifieds

During the event I visited the rooms of the various dealers from Morocco - I ended up buying about four kilograms total of unclassified NWAs - I took a few pictures of some sample items I cherry picked from boxes and tables

Date: 01/01/00

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NWA Unclassifieds

I mainly chose stones based on crust characteristics, the level of magnetism, and the potential for a rare find

Date: 02/09/10

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NWA Unclassifieds

Other stones I chose just because they were oriented or fully crusted - these pictures represent about half of what I came home with - but they give a good idea of what was available for really reasonable prices!